A basic thing many fans of crowdfunding seem to be blind to is that crowdfunding = crowdpleasing.
I’ve never done crowdfunding because I’ve never yet had a crowdpleasing idea.
Low-unit-cost, high-volume consumer products like my ebooks and newsletter aren’t crowd funding
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Why do you think that they're blind to it? I figure that it's pretty well understood, but that some people decide that if it is a cost, it's one worth paying
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It’s not a “cost”, it’s an incompatibility. You don’t get to decide to treat it as a cost for arbitrary projects, only ones that are first compatible structurally with that model. There’s no meaningful way to spin most things in crowd-pleasing ways.
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Sure, I meant that the additional constraint on which projects you pursue is a cost. Seems like you think that constraint is bigger than I do, though. In that case, which way(s) of making money do you think independent content creators (etc) should prefer?
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I’m not thinking about indie content creators in general for the most part, but about indie research as on the other thread I’m tweeting this morning. Sorry if that was not obvious. Forgot to string this on that thread.
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